From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-10-22T19:36:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Self-replicating Ruby

Aaron Patterson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:25:02AM +0900, Frank J. Lhota wrote:
>> Dear Ruby fans,
>>
>> A common Lisp exercise is to write a Lisp program that writes its own
>> source code to standard output. Reading from a source file is not
>> permitted.
>>
>> This leads one to wonder: what is the smallest and / or most elegant
>> Ruby program that writes its own source code to standard output? As
>> with Lisp, reading from a file is not permitted. Given the nature of
>> the language, this problem should  should have a lot of interesting
>> solutions.
> 
> This is called a Quine, right?  I can't beat Ryan Davis', so I'll just
> link to it.  :-)
> 
> http://blog.zenspider.com/archives/2006/09/ruby_quine__sli.html
> 
I did one in ERb, too:

<%=s=">%\"}esrever.s{#}tcepsni.s{#=s=%<\";";"<%=s=#{s.inspect}#{s.reverse}"%>

-- 
Alex